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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.Slate From ACM Opinion | February 6, 2013
When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.Wired From ACM News | February 6, 2013
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...Time From ACM News | February 6, 2013
We all have that friend who has stubbornly disappeared from Facebook at one time or another, only to reappear some weeks or months later.ArsTechnica From ACM Careers | February 6, 2013
Silicon Valley's job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels, and San Francisco has emerged as a major new tech hub. But good times have not returned for all...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | February 6, 2013
In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | February 5, 2013
Last December, a piece in the MIT Technology Review revealed that Young Sohn, Samsung Electronics' new Silicon Valley-based chief strategy officer, uses Apple products...Fortune From ACM Careers | February 5, 2013
Michael Dell is close to finishing a risky $23 billion deal to take private the computer company he founded nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to remake Dell Inc...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 5, 2013
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2013
The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.The New York Times From ACM Careers | February 4, 2013
MIT's third annual Diversity Summit, held last week at Kresge Auditorium, reflected the growing importance of inclusion at the Institute: From 70 attendees at the...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | February 4, 2013
The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.BBC News From ACM News | February 4, 2013
Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of most of the world's top-selling electronic gadgets including Apple Inc's iPhone, is trying to raise participation in...Reuters From ACM Careers | February 4, 2013
A computer scientist has written the first programming language based on Arabic script. Named "heart" in Arabic, the language is "the first programming language...The Register From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2013
Microsoft researcher Don Syme notes that one primary difference between F# and other programming languages is that F# is a functional-first language and, in many...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2013
The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the first of a breed of ultratall buildings that will exceed 3,000 feet in height. That's more than twice as tall...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | February 1, 2013
The National Science Foundation, along with the journal Science, today announces the 53 winners and honorable mentions of the International Science & Technology...National Science Foundation From ACM News | January 31, 2013
Intel Corp, the world's biggest chipmaker, opened a new front on Thursday in a long and stuttering campaign to get its processors into mobile phones, although it...Reuters From ACM Careers | January 31, 2013
Schools around the U.K. are to be given 15,000 free microcomputers, with a view to creating a new generation of computer scientists.BBC News From ACM Careers | January 30, 2013